"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."

Robert Frost

And so "The Blue Max Project" is a discovering.

This art project is an exploration that started with no clear destination. Storytelling, graphic arts and aviation history all overlap the journey. The centerpiece is "Rupp's Skizzenbuch", a fan fiction / fan art project that is based on the story of "The Blue Max" written by Jack Hunter in 1964. It is an officer's journal that retells the same story from the vantage point of Unteroffizier Gerhardt Rupp. Not a good man, an "old campaigner" who sees no glory in the Great War and is willing to do almost anything to make sure he makes it to the end in one piece.

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